After the Fall: On the Writings of Czeslaw Milosz

ISBN-13: 9783631816981 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 418 str.

Tomasz Garbol

Opis

The book reconstructs a poetic vision of the world after the Fall and describes Czeslaw Milosz's model of modernism, shaped by his intellectual and existential division between pessimism and ecstasy, yearning for contact with the meaning of reality, and faith in the power of poetic imagination.

Spis treści

Poetic vision of the world after the Fall - heritage of Romanticism (Mickiewicz and Norwid) -
challenges of modernism - yearning for presence or contact with the meaning of reality - faith in the
power of poetic imagination - relationship between literature and religion

O autorze

Tomasz Garbol, literary scholar at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Center of Research on
Religious Literature, and author of monographs about Zbigniew Herbert, "Chrzest ziemi", and
Czeslaw Milosz, Milosz. Los, editor of the collection on literature and religion, Literatura a religia.